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The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

The author of this editorial penned an op-ed for the Toronto Star many years ago along with Onawa K. Jacobs when Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister.

Falen Iakowennaiéwas Jacobs is now taking on a more active leadership role as director of education at the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC), now that her onboarding process has wrapped up.

A brand-new language program from the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR) launched this month, filling a gap in community programming to help advanced speakers continue to advance their Kanien’kéha proficiency.

Donathan Saganash has worn a lot of hats during his almost two-decade career in law enforcement. Saganash, who is Cree, has served in many Indigenous communities, including as a patrol officer, an investigator, and attaining the rank of deputy director of the Eeyou Eenou Police Force in Mistissini.

Onkwehón:we across Turtle Island donned their ribbon skirts on January 4, in recognition of the third annual National Ribbon Skirt Day.

After more than a decade spent as a university student, Wahéhshon Shiann Whitebean is getting a taste for what it’s like to be the one at the front of the classroom, after accepting a position as a course lecturer at McGill University this semester.

When Finnley Montour answered a callout for graphic artists to imagine an Indigenous-inspired logo for the Montreal Alouettes, the Kahnawa’kehró:non artist did not think her work would be the one chosen to adorn the Canadian Football League (CFL)

Last term, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Iohahiio Delisle was in a meeting that he found heartbreaking. Karihwanó:ron, the community’s Mohawk immersion elementary school for more than three decades, was full of mold, teaching the language out of an “old cigarette shack” on the cusp of being condemned.

Grade eight students from Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) have wrapped up a semester of fun with the Concordia Journalism department, having produced their own podcasts with university student mentors.